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Matt Kelemen

Matt Kelemen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
AlterNet , Las Vegas CityLife
Critics' Group:
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
190
Total QuickRatings:
181

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
62% Kill the Irishman (2011) " A minor mob-cinema classic." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Apr 11, 2011
11% Red Riding Hood (2011) " Grandma's house exudes the fairy-tale atmosphere Hardwicke strived for, but it's too little too late. By then it's clear that Seyfried's leading men are bland, the pacing plods, and the story needed more development. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 11, 2011
86% Cedar Rapids (2011) " The Hangover cast member can't quite carry a feature on his own. This one is not all that funny anyway, and its comic elements eventually become redundant" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Mar 11, 2011
67% Brüno (Bruno) (2009) " if mixed martial arts fans who view the film are forever after afraid of fighters getting aroused during a ground-and-pound session on the mat, then Baron Cohen did the job right." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 1, 2011
68% Public Enemies (2009) " ... meanders and never delivers the pay-off it promises. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 1, 2011
68% Funny People (2009) " Apatow draws on his own experience to explore behavioral nuances of people that make us laugh, and it's no secret that being funny is not the same as being happy." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 1, 2011
76% Valentino: The Last Emperor (2009) " It's interesting to a degree, but without a strong knowledge of the fashion industry, a novice will be left out in the cold." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 1, 2011
49% Taking Woodstock (2009) " A ham-handed attempt to indicate the oncoming tragedy of Altamont ends the film with a touch of contrivance, but it's the only sour note in an otherwise flawless film." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 1, 2011
78% Humpday (2009) " While the dare itself seems almost contrived to make the movie happen, what transpires afterward is a very universal experience for people who take stock of their lives for the first time after college. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 1, 2011
80% It Might Get Loud (2009) " Guggenheim's depictions of his subjects' artistic development will strike universal chords in anyone who finds meaning in creativity." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 1, 2011
34% The Burning Plain (2009) " Knowing ... that it's a 20-year old story, one can only conclude the idea behind the film would have been best left unfilmed, an unfinished step toward greater things." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
73% Where the Wild Things Are (2009) " It's almost as if they were afraid to redefine the book, and left things as free-floating and ambiguous as possible. ... it's all meandering, abstract non-story that isn't helped by the muddy color palette" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
52% The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) " although Clooney's charm factor helps Cassady rise above the caricatures created by the rest of the cast. ... it won't necessarily elevate a mediocre film into one worth watching. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
94% The Damned United (2009) " as foreign for American audiences as a story about one of Billy Martin's stints with the Yankees would be in the U.K." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
60% Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) " thinly drawn plot, thinner characters" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
94% An Education (2009) " Mulligan possesses Audrey Hepburn-like radiance, but the 22-year-old actress looks so young, it's hard to perceive David as anything but creepy. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
66% The Blind Side (2009) " While The Blind Side constantly threatens to deteriorate into sentimental saccharine, it never does. Bullock's accent grates at first, but she bonds well with McGraw" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
93% Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) " Fantastic Mr. Fox stops short of being a potential classic. It's just done extremely well." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
91% Up in the Air (2009) " Just when you start to wonder where the surprise twists will happen, Reitman defies conventional storytelling. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " Although Ritchie's itchy camera finger causes confusion in the more kinetic action sequences, Downey and Law take the film far enough into buddy film territory to make the misfires easily forgotten" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
63% The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) " a confusing mess. ... a promising set-up assembled with bits and pieces of Gilliam's brilliance, but he clearly did not wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant vision" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
91% Crazy Heart (2009) " Played by a gracefully aging Jeff Bridges, Bad is an older, greasier and groggier version of The Dude" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
51% Alice in Wonderland (2010) " Burton's imagination never lets up ... and while those 3-D effects do seem to fade into the background, you can feed your head on his Wonderland for the entire trip." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
23% Repo Men (2010) " Sapochnik is completely unable to create suspension of disbelief, at least with the preposterous plot he had to work with. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
75% Greenberg (2010) " Greenberg is not an enjoyable movie, but it's a unique experience that will mostly appeal to cinephiles with insatiable appetites for character-driven small films. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
50% Chloe (2010) " Egoyan's lyrical, ethereal style is present, but Catherine's motivation and masochistic tendencies seem to emerge out of nowhere. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
68% The Runaways (2010) " Aside from Stewart transforming herself into Jett, once the band is formed, there is little about the film that captures the atmosphere of the time period. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
76% Kick-Ass (2010) " Kick-Ass is so refreshingly iconoclastic, it's a wonder it was made at all." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
91% The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) (2010) " There are some "Are we there yet?" stretches as the film plays out toward the unexpected ending, but the final destination is worth the total travel time." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
49% Holy Rollers (2010) " Peters out at the end. ... Still, there are more than enough positive elements, especially Ben Kutchins' expressive and mesmerizing cinematography, to recommend it. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
6% The Last Airbender (2010) " Kiddie-strength action scenes drag the film down, but the kiss of death is Shyamalan's gratuitous use of earth tones and the general dull, drab look of the film. ... drastically reduces the intensity of the 3-D effects" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 31, 2011
80% Cyrus (2010) " The visual style transcends lyricism to achieve a kind of free-verse poetry, aided in large part by awe-inspiring mash-ups of montage and voice-overs" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 28, 2011
49% No Strings Attached (2011) " There are no bad guys and good guys here; just human beings. While Paul is alternately embraced and regarded as an interloper, we see him from both his own and the family's perspective" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 28, 2011
94% Winter's Bone (2010) " ... consciously attempting to avoid clichés can erode authenticity. To director Debra Granik's credit, realism permeates every frame of digital imagery" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 28, 2011
81% Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) " While O'Malley's storyline and dialogue are nearly intact for the film adaptation, Wright's vision turns it into a riotous spoof of the films that made Cera a star. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 28, 2011
86% Get Low (2010) " ... as much a celebration of Duvall in the December of his years as anything else. He's mesmerizing to watch -- still able to electrify the screen and disappear into characters despite our familiarity with him" — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 28, 2011
66% The American (2010) " ... for audiences that prefer to be absorbed by films rather than exhausted by them, The American offers a rare experience. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 28, 2011
53% I'm Still Here (2010) " Is I'm Still Here an art film? Post-verité? Social satire? A big "**** you" to Hollywood? Disturbing? Hard to sit through? Oh yeah." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 28, 2011
58% It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) " The film's central element -- its sensitive exploration of a young teen's emotional confusion -- creates strong audience empathy, however, and gives Fleck and Boden a fertile focus for their signature light-hearted humanist storytelling. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 27, 2011
79% Nowhere Boy (2010) " Nowhere Boy succeeds because its creators never wallow in sanctimony, keep contrivances to a minimum and has a lead actor who evolves his character rather than imitates. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 27, 2011
50% Cool It (2010) " ... a slick argument that is basically a subterfuge intended to promote a free-market absolutist approach to solving the global warming problem. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 27, 2011
93% 127 Hours (2010) " Split screens, flashbacks, fantasy sequences, hallucinations, speed variations, helicopter shots and extreme reverse zooms are just a few weapons in [Boyle's] arsenal, but most potent of all is James Franco in the lead." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 27, 2011
64% Biutiful (2010) " It's difficult to walk away feeling like you just watched a great film, which it is. The sustained mood of pathos boils over at some point, with empathy giving way to claustrophobia. You want to get out of the slums as much as the people living there do." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 27, 2011
96% The Social Network (2010) " he Social Network occupies a gray area, in which everybody's perspective is in question, and most of the main characters slip into self-serving, subjective realities. ... an ingenious way to tackle a very curious, contemporary case " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 27, 2011
87% Black Swan (2010) " it's Portman who causes the film to fall short of the effectiveness of Repulsion. ... you kind of wish Nina would just break down and get it over with." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 26, 2011
96% True Grit (2010) " On its own merits, without considering its origins, True Grit is a fantastic film ... and might be considered one of the Coens' best when their career is looked at in retrospect." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 26, 2011
36% Casino Jack (2010) " There's a morality tale in here somewhere, but the director fell in love with his subject along the way and lost perspective. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 26, 2011
88% Blue Valentine (2010) " The time spent ... bringing to life these characters enabled the actors to reach a level of naturalism that can't be achieved by conventional role casting. Cianfrance, Gosling and Williams literally created a family, then let it self-destruct." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 26, 2011
68% Revolutionary Road (2008) " ... far beyond deconstructing the man in the gray flannel suit. ... [writer Richard Yates] explored ways we acquire and define our identities from people we love, and how we set our lives on self-deceptive and self-destructive courses. " — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 26, 2011
65% Watchmen (2009) " Hard to sit through, uneven but ambitious and inspired, and I don't want to see it again." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Jan 26, 2011
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